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marmi
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9 years ago
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Multiple gateway installations for customers

Hello,

 

we have several customers, each of them use their own Power BI. Data is located in our server room for each customer. What would you suggest as a cost-efficient way to create gateways (one per each customer).

 

- VMWare virtual server with gateway service per customer? (not the best way for us...)

- Windows Containers? 

- Docker for Windows...?

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Gateways
  • v-haibl-msft's avatar
    v-haibl-msft
    9 years ago

    marmi

     

    Yes, one gateway for one customer. And gateway can only be installed on Windows now.

     

    Best Regards,

    Herbert

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    v-haibl-msft
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    9 years ago

    marmi

     

    Do your customers use the same database? If yes, you can only install one on-premises gateway on one database machine, and manage users who can use the data source. Please refer to this document.

     

    Best Regards,

    Herbert

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      marmi
      Regular Visitor
      9 years ago

      No, each customer has their own databases. The purpose is to have separate Power BI's as well. We don't want the customers to see each others reports, dashboards and data.

      • v-haibl-msft's avatar
        v-haibl-msft
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        9 years ago

        marmi

         

        In that case, you just need to install one on-premises gateway on each database and configure the gateway for each customer account.

         

        Best Regards,

        Herbert